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Proverbs 1:7
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The fear of the Lordis the beginning of knowledge;fools despise wisdom and discipline.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Knowledge begins with respect for the Lord , but fools hate wisdom and discipline.
Fearing the Lord is the beginning of moral knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The [reverent] fear of the LORD [that is, worshiping Him and regarding Him as truly awesome] is the beginning and the preeminent part of knowledge [its starting point and its essence]; But arrogant fools despise [skillful and godly] wisdom and instruction and self-discipline.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge;Ignorant fools despise wisdom and discipline.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Respect and obey the Lord ! This is the beginning of knowledge. Only a fool rejects wisdom and good advice.
The fear of Adonai is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The reverence of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise knowledge and instruction.
To have knowledge, you must first have reverence for the Lord . Stupid people have no respect for wisdom and refuse to learn.
Fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; wisdom and instruction, fools despise.
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The feare of the LORDE is the begynnynge of wysdome. But fooles despyse wysdome and nurtoure.
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and discipline.
The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.
The feare of the Lorde is the begynnyng of knowledge: but fooles dispise wisdome and instruction.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and there is good understanding to all that practise it: and piety toward God is the beginning of discernment; but the ungodly will set at nought wisdom and instruction.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
The drede of the Lord is the bigynning of wisdom; foolis dispisen wisdom and teching.
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; [But] the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Fear of the Lord is the foundation of true knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of much learning. Fools hate wisdom and teaching.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The reverence of Yahweh, is the beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and correction, the foolish have despised.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Fear of Jehovah [is] a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
Start with God —the first step in learning is bowing down to God ; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
fear: Proverbs 9:10, Job 28:28, Psalms 111:10, Psalms 112:1, Ecclesiastes 12:13
beginning: or, principal part
but: Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 1:29, Proverbs 1:30, Proverbs 5:12, Proverbs 5:13, Proverbs 15:5, Proverbs 18:2, John 3:18-21, Romans 1:28
Reciprocal: Genesis 20:11 - Surely Genesis 22:12 - now Exodus 20:20 - his fear Leviticus 25:17 - fear Leviticus 26:15 - despise Deuteronomy 4:6 - this is your Deuteronomy 32:28 - General 1 Samuel 12:24 - fear the Lord Job 21:14 - for we Job 30:8 - fools Psalms 5:5 - The Psalms 14:1 - fool Psalms 25:12 - What Psalms 34:11 - I will Psalms 50:17 - hatest Psalms 95:10 - and they Psalms 119:150 - draw nigh Psalms 119:155 - for they Proverbs 9:18 - he Proverbs 15:33 - fear Proverbs 31:30 - a woman Jeremiah 7:28 - correction Zephaniah 3:2 - correction Haggai 1:12 - fear Matthew 13:19 - and understandeth Matthew 22:5 - they Acts 9:31 - and walking Acts 10:35 - feareth Romans 3:11 - none that understandeth 1 Thessalonians 4:8 - despiseth not 2 Thessalonians 2:10 - they received 1 Peter 2:17 - Fear
Cross-References
God named that space "sky." There was evening, and then there was morning. This was the second day.
Then God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered together so that the dry land will appear." And it happened.
Then God said, "Let the earth grow grass, plants that make grain, and fruit trees. The fruit trees will make fruit with seeds in it. And each plant will make its own kind of seed. Let these plants grow on the earth." And it happened.
They will be in the sky to shine light on the earth." And it happened.
Then God said, "Let the earth produce many kinds of living things. Let there be many different kinds of animals. Let there be large animals and small crawling animals of every kind. And let all these animals produce more animals." And all these things happened.
God blessed them and said to them, "Have many children. Fill the earth and take control of it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the air. Rule over every living thing that moves on the earth."
God said, "I am giving you all the grain bearing plants and all the fruit trees. These trees make fruit with seeds in it. This grain and fruit will be your food.
He fills the thick clouds with water. But he does not let its heavy weight break the clouds open.
Lord, you cause water to flow from springs into the streams that flow down between the mountains.
Praise him, highest heaven! Waters above the sky, praise him!
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The fear of the Lord [is] the beginning of knowledge,.... Here properly the book begins, and this is the first of the proverbs, and an excellent one; it is such an one as is not to be found in all the writings of the Heathens. By "the fear of the Lord" is not meant a servile fear, a fear of punishment, of hell, wrath, and damnation, which is the effect of the first work of the law upon the conscience; but a filial fear, and supposes knowledge of God as a father, of his love and grace in Christ, particularly of his forgiving love, from whence it arises, Psalms 130:4; it is a holy, humble, fiducial fear of God; a reverential affection for him, and devotion to him; it includes the whole of religious worship, both internal and external; all that is contained in the first table of the law, and the manner of performing it, and principle of acting: this is the first of all sciences to be learned, and it is the principal one; it is the basis and foundation of all the rest, on which they depend; and it is the head, the fountain, the root an source, from whence they spring; and unless a man knows God, knows God in Christ, and worships him in his fear, in spirit and in truth, according to his revealed will, he knows nothing as he ought to know; and all his knowledge will be of no avail and profit to him; this is the first and chief thing in spiritual and evangelical knowledge, and without which all natural knowledge will signify nothing; see Job 28:28;
[but] fools despise wisdom and instruction; the same with "knowledge" before; they do not desire the knowledge of God, and of his ways and worship, but despise it, make no account of it, but treat it with contempt; especially the knowledge of God in Christ, in which lies the highest wisdom, for this is "life eternal", John 17:3; they despise Christ "the Wisdom of God", and the Gospel, and the truths of it, which are "the hidden wisdom" of God; and all "instruction" into it, and the means of it; they despise the Scriptures, which are able to make a man "wise unto salvation"; and the ministry of the word, and the ministers of it: such sort of "discipline" n was this, as the word signifies, they dislike and abhor; and especially "correction" or "chastisement" o, which is also the sense of it; suffering reproach and affliction for the sake of wisdom, a profession of Christ and his Gospel; and they are fools with a witness that despise all this; such fools are atheists, deists, and all profane and wicked men. The Septuagint render it, "the ungodly"; and such sort of men are all along meant by "fools" in this book.
n מוסר "disciplinam", Tigurine version, Piscator, Cocceius, Schultens, o "Castigationem, correctionem", Vatablus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The beginning of wisdom is found in the temper of reverence and awe. The fear of the finite in the presence of the Infinite, of the sinful in the presence of the Holy (compare Job 42:5-6), this for the Israelite was the starting-point of all true wisdom. In the Book of Job 28:28 it appears as an oracle accompanied by the noblest poetry. In Psalms 111:10 it comes as the choral close of a temple hymn. Here it is the watchword of a true ethical education. This fear has no torment, and is compatible with child-like love. But this and not love is the “beginning of wisdom.” Through successive stages and by the discipline of life, love blends with it and makes it perfect.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 1:7. The fear of the Lord — In the preceding verses Solomon shows the advantage of acting according to the dictates of wisdom; in the following verses he shows the danger of acting contrary to them. The fear of the Lord signifies that religious reverence which every intelligent being owes to his Creator; and is often used to express the whole of religion, as we have frequently had occasion to remark in different places. But what is religion? The love of God, and the love of man; the former producing all obedience to the Divine will; the latter, every act of benevolence to one's fellows. The love of God shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Spirit produces the deepest religious reverence, genuine piety, and cheerful obedience. To love one's neighbour as himself is the second great commandment; and as love worketh no ill to one's neighbour, therefore it is said to be the fulfilling of the law. Without love, there is no obedience; without reverence, there is neither caution, consistent conduct, nor perseverance in righteousness.
This fear or religious reverence is said to be the beginning of knowledge; ראשית reshith, the principle, the first moving influence, begotten in a tender conscience by the Spirit of God. No man can ever become truly wise, who does not begin with God, the fountain of knowledge; and he whose mind is influenced by the fear and love of God will learn more in a month than others will in a year.
Fools despise — אוילים evilim, evil men. Men of bad hearts, bad heads, and bad ways.
